Florence Bates

Known for ActingBorn 1888-04-13Died 1954-01-31San Antonio, Texas, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los Angeles. In the mid-1930s, Bates auditioned for and won the role of Miss Bates in a Pasadena Playhouse adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. When she decided to continue working with the theatre group, she changed her professional name to that of the first character she played on stage. In 1939, she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her first major screen role, the vain dowager Mrs. Van Hopper, in Rebecca (1940). Bates appeared in more than sixty films over the course of the next thirteen years. Among her cinema credits are Kitty Foyle, Love Crazy, The Moon and Sixpence, Mr. Lucky, Heaven Can Wait, Lullaby of Broadway, Mister Big, Since You Went Away, Kismet, Saratoga Trunk, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Winter Meeting, I Remember Mama, Portrait of Jennie, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, and Les Misérables. In television, Bates had a regular role on The Hank McCune Show and made guest appearances on I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, I Married Joan and Our Miss Brooks.Read more

Movies & web series

Belle of Old Mexico

Tahiti Nights

County Fair

Dick Tracy

Out of This World

I Love Lucy

Calling All Husbands

Rebecca

The Devil and Miss Jones

Claudia and David

Main Street to Broadway

I Remember Mama

A Letter to Three Wives

Portrait of Jennie

Cluny Brown

His Butler's Sister

Strange Alibi

Havana Rose

On the Town

The Judge Steps Out

The Mask of Dimitrios

The Tall Target

Mr. Lucky

Four Star Playhouse

Heaven Can Wait

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Love Crazy

Love and Learn

Winter Meeting

The Chocolate Soldier

The Inside Story

Father Takes the Air

Kitty Foyle

The Moon and Sixpence

The Diary of a Chambermaid

They Got Me Covered

My Dear Secretary

The Man I Love

The Son of Monte Cristo

San Antonio

Saratoga Trunk

Hudson's Bay

Lullaby of Broadway

The Brasher Doubloon

Slightly Dangerous

River Lady

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Belle of the Yukon